Emile Schepers
LATEST ARTICLES BY Emile Schepers
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World
Violence and threats of more: Brazil’s electoral drama gets more bizarre
September 13, 2018After a far-right candidate is stabbed, his VP running mate threatens to bring out the military. Meanwhile, with Lula in jail, the left has to bring in a substitute candidate of its own.
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World
Cornered Guatemalan government lashes out against corruption accusers
September 6, 2018Morales is terminating the country’s cooperative relationship with a UN-sponsored body that has been working with Guatemalan prosecutors to root out corruption in this impoverished country of 17 million.
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World
Brazil: Setback for Lula’s presidential candidacy
September 4, 2018The Supreme Electoral Tribunal voted six to one that former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is barred from running.
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U.S.
Rough and tumble in Virginia midterm elections
August 28, 2018As the Nov. 6 midterm elections approach, Virginia, with its eleven congressional seats, is seeing some interesting and important battles.
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World
Colombia and U.S. implicated in plot to kill Venezuelan president
August 21, 2018From Bogota to Miami, more names are popping up in the list of accomplices in the Maduro assassination attempt.
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World
Brazil’s ex-President Lula in jail; Workers Party nominates him anyway
August 7, 2018If the former president is unable to run, the replacement ticket will include a member of the Communist Party as the VP nominee.
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World
Attempted assassination targets Venezuelan President Maduro
August 6, 2018One government body said it was the work of the "fascist right" to "achieve by violence what it has not been able to achieve by democratic means.”
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News
Nelson Mandela: 100 years since his birth
July 16, 2018Celebrating the centennial of a hero of South African liberation.
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